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assessment of the vulnerability of rural livelihoods in the Pacific to
... Sustainable Livelihood Analysis (SLA) (Carney 1998; Ellis 2000). The EVI climate change sub-index values produced by SOPAC, indicates the environmental risks likely to result from climate change. In this study, we have used these values to rank the relative biophysical vulnerability of PICs to clima ...
... Sustainable Livelihood Analysis (SLA) (Carney 1998; Ellis 2000). The EVI climate change sub-index values produced by SOPAC, indicates the environmental risks likely to result from climate change. In this study, we have used these values to rank the relative biophysical vulnerability of PICs to clima ...
Visual Images and the Rhetoric of Environmental Advocacy
... While making visible the potential risks of climate change is necessary to Greenpeace’s advocacy campaigns, this alone may not be enough to encourage the public to take actions to address the issue. I argue that images taken of Greenpeace image campaigns appeal to news media’s attraction to the nov ...
... While making visible the potential risks of climate change is necessary to Greenpeace’s advocacy campaigns, this alone may not be enough to encourage the public to take actions to address the issue. I argue that images taken of Greenpeace image campaigns appeal to news media’s attraction to the nov ...
assam state action plan on climate change
... threat to humanity and has implications for sustainable development. Our climate is already changing. Along with continued warming of the atmosphere, erratic rainfall pattern are emerging and as result new patterns of droughts and floods are being observed, which are likely to get more frequent and ...
... threat to humanity and has implications for sustainable development. Our climate is already changing. Along with continued warming of the atmosphere, erratic rainfall pattern are emerging and as result new patterns of droughts and floods are being observed, which are likely to get more frequent and ...
Climate Change and its Health Implications
... Change Controversies’ in 2007 that includes question and answer points for climate change cynics (www.royalsoc.ac.uk). The current record for the warmest year in the last thousand years is 1998. The Central England Temperature series (CET) is the longest instrumental temperature record in the world, ...
... Change Controversies’ in 2007 that includes question and answer points for climate change cynics (www.royalsoc.ac.uk). The current record for the warmest year in the last thousand years is 1998. The Central England Temperature series (CET) is the longest instrumental temperature record in the world, ...
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Land Use Sector
... Noordwijk et al. 2011). With that hope gone, there still are distinct policy streams for mitigation and adaptation in current UNFCCC negotiations. Mitigation and adaptation are still implemented independently (Verchot et al. 2007; Locatelli et al. 2010), at different scales and are addressed by diff ...
... Noordwijk et al. 2011). With that hope gone, there still are distinct policy streams for mitigation and adaptation in current UNFCCC negotiations. Mitigation and adaptation are still implemented independently (Verchot et al. 2007; Locatelli et al. 2010), at different scales and are addressed by diff ...
projected to rise another 3.5 to 9 F by as early as 2070
... impacts on the tidal Chesapeake Bay and identifying critical knowledge gaps and research priorities. This report addresses that charge and provides the basis for incorporating climate change considerations into resource management decisions. Evidence from many laboratory, field, and numericalmodelin ...
... impacts on the tidal Chesapeake Bay and identifying critical knowledge gaps and research priorities. This report addresses that charge and provides the basis for incorporating climate change considerations into resource management decisions. Evidence from many laboratory, field, and numericalmodelin ...
FINAL DRAFT IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 17 Subject to Final Copyedit
... through providing claim payments after an event, and allow for improved decisions under risk pre-event (strong evidence). It can also directly provide incentives for reducing risk, yet the evidence is weak and the presence of many counteracting factors often leads to disincentives, which is known as ...
... through providing claim payments after an event, and allow for improved decisions under risk pre-event (strong evidence). It can also directly provide incentives for reducing risk, yet the evidence is weak and the presence of many counteracting factors often leads to disincentives, which is known as ...
- Nottingham ePrints
... More recently, images of extreme weather have become more frequent and more commonplace in media reporting from around the world. They are no longer just symbols of the possible dangers posed by climate change, but rather used as documentary evidence of its reality and its causes. As Smith and Joffe ...
... More recently, images of extreme weather have become more frequent and more commonplace in media reporting from around the world. They are no longer just symbols of the possible dangers posed by climate change, but rather used as documentary evidence of its reality and its causes. As Smith and Joffe ...
Climate Vulnerability in Asia`s High Mountains
... Management strategies are complicated by large spatial gradients in precipitation regimes throughout AHM, and management strategies based on regional estimates of climate change are unlikely to apply at smaller scales. Distinct climatological influences, such as summer monsoons and winter westerly d ...
... Management strategies are complicated by large spatial gradients in precipitation regimes throughout AHM, and management strategies based on regional estimates of climate change are unlikely to apply at smaller scales. Distinct climatological influences, such as summer monsoons and winter westerly d ...
Agriculture and Future Climate Dynamics in Africa: Impacts and Adaptation Options
... model, the study predicts future impacts under various climate scenarios. In addition to estimating impacts on mixed crop−livestock farms, the study also measures and compares impacts on specialised crop and livestock farms. Responses of different production systems are analysed under irrigation and ...
... model, the study predicts future impacts under various climate scenarios. In addition to estimating impacts on mixed crop−livestock farms, the study also measures and compares impacts on specialised crop and livestock farms. Responses of different production systems are analysed under irrigation and ...
Rethinking the Role of Cost-Benefit Analysis
... via OMB review of regulations is in serious tension with the presiden5 tial duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” If CBA is to be applied to large areas of pollution law, legislative changes are required. In the meantime, CBA serves only an informational purpose. It would provide ...
... via OMB review of regulations is in serious tension with the presiden5 tial duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” If CBA is to be applied to large areas of pollution law, legislative changes are required. In the meantime, CBA serves only an informational purpose. It would provide ...
Project Document for CEO Approval (Revised)
... Mitigation of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases is important as it will also help counter the current trade imbalance that results from the importation of large quantities of fossil fuels, and in light of the increasing national energy need, at all levels; Through further research and impr ...
... Mitigation of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases is important as it will also help counter the current trade imbalance that results from the importation of large quantities of fossil fuels, and in light of the increasing national energy need, at all levels; Through further research and impr ...
Climate challenge – the safety`s off
... decades. There will then be more room for manoeuvre later on. The EU’s goal of allowing the Earth’s average temperature to increase by a maximum of two degrees will be possible to achieve by a clear margin as regards carbon dioxide emissions if we switch to an electric society, writes Sven Kullander ...
... decades. There will then be more room for manoeuvre later on. The EU’s goal of allowing the Earth’s average temperature to increase by a maximum of two degrees will be possible to achieve by a clear margin as regards carbon dioxide emissions if we switch to an electric society, writes Sven Kullander ...
The Value of Linking Mitigation and Adaptation: A Case Study of
... figure has since been criticized for being too conservative, and more recent estimates by Oxfam International (2007) put the figure at more than $50 billion annually. Yet the World Bank (2006) estimates (very optimistically) that the Adaptation Fund may amount to $100 million to $500 million per yea ...
... figure has since been criticized for being too conservative, and more recent estimates by Oxfam International (2007) put the figure at more than $50 billion annually. Yet the World Bank (2006) estimates (very optimistically) that the Adaptation Fund may amount to $100 million to $500 million per yea ...
GCF - The Basics
... concessional loans, equity investments and guarantees. there is a risk they could crowd out direct access from (The first activities are mostly grant funded, although organizations based in developing coutnries. The GCF equity, guarantees and loan funding were also approved Secretariat anticipates t ...
... concessional loans, equity investments and guarantees. there is a risk they could crowd out direct access from (The first activities are mostly grant funded, although organizations based in developing coutnries. The GCF equity, guarantees and loan funding were also approved Secretariat anticipates t ...
Primary impacts of climate change on the cryosphere
... at altitudes above 2000 m. The projected increase in temperature would shift this latitude and altitude limit even higher. Therefore, winter tourism will be restricted to a shorter time period and/or to regions at increasingly high altitude or latitude. The declining snow reservoir will also cause l ...
... at altitudes above 2000 m. The projected increase in temperature would shift this latitude and altitude limit even higher. Therefore, winter tourism will be restricted to a shorter time period and/or to regions at increasingly high altitude or latitude. The declining snow reservoir will also cause l ...
Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services
... likely to become a net source of carbon during the course of this century (medium confidence), possibly earlier than projected by the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) (low confidence) [4.1, Figure 4.2]. Methane emissions from tundra frozen loess (‘yedoma’, comprising about 500 Pg C) and permafrost ...
... likely to become a net source of carbon during the course of this century (medium confidence), possibly earlier than projected by the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) (low confidence) [4.1, Figure 4.2]. Methane emissions from tundra frozen loess (‘yedoma’, comprising about 500 Pg C) and permafrost ...
working group on adaptation and climate resilience final report
... well-being, the economy, and the natural environment. These impacts will persist and worsen, even with a concerted effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Mobilizing action on adaptation will help protect Canadians from climate change risks, build resilience, and ensure that society thrives in a ...
... well-being, the economy, and the natural environment. These impacts will persist and worsen, even with a concerted effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Mobilizing action on adaptation will help protect Canadians from climate change risks, build resilience, and ensure that society thrives in a ...
Climate Change Effects and Impacts Assessment
... Why plan now for climate change? Climate-related risks are not new to New Zealand local government planners, or resource and hazard managers. Climate change will, by and large, not create new risks, but may change the frequency and intensity of existing risks and hazards, as well as introducing some ...
... Why plan now for climate change? Climate-related risks are not new to New Zealand local government planners, or resource and hazard managers. Climate change will, by and large, not create new risks, but may change the frequency and intensity of existing risks and hazards, as well as introducing some ...
Climate finance in the Pacific: An overview of flows to the region`s
... funding with a wider range of sectors, than Micronesian countries. It is beyond the scope of this paper to explore the reasons for this pattern, but it is a question worth considering, as it might offer useful lessons that could help all Pacific Island countries in future efforts to access climate f ...
... funding with a wider range of sectors, than Micronesian countries. It is beyond the scope of this paper to explore the reasons for this pattern, but it is a question worth considering, as it might offer useful lessons that could help all Pacific Island countries in future efforts to access climate f ...
Climate Change Scenarios for the Congo Basin
... It is impossible to use all 77 climate change scenarios for the impact analyses so instead we used a rather representative subset of climate scenarios. Most of the assessments were based on six different global climate change scenarios; however for some studies like the analysis of the forest carbon ...
... It is impossible to use all 77 climate change scenarios for the impact analyses so instead we used a rather representative subset of climate scenarios. Most of the assessments were based on six different global climate change scenarios; however for some studies like the analysis of the forest carbon ...